Found an obvious scam, ebay is no help

Question

Hello, this account I found with no activity is selling this item NEW for half of its MSRP and for hundreds of dollars less than I have EVER seen even a used version sold. https://www.ebay.com/itm/389697605540?itmmeta=01KJXZQJMVW289QHVJWTGTVTTR&hash=item5abbc98fa4:g:KpYAAeSwGSRpqAMZ This product should be around $800. Even more suspicious is that they sold them in bulk. 7 to be exact. This is either a scam or clear theft and needs to be dealt with before anyone gets ripped off.

eburtonlab · Answer

@sepe65

Listing an item for a low price is not a policy violation, so reporting the listing on that basis is unlikely to get eBay to take any action, even if you and I have good reason to believe that zero-feedback seller will not be delivering those items at those prices.

The problem is that unscrupulous or uninformed sellers can list genuine items and then deliver counterfeit items, or nothing at all.

It is not always possible to look at a listing and know in advance exactly what, if anything, the seller intends to deliver. For one thing, a scammer can simply copy a listing from a genuine seller, using a genuine photo of a genuine item.

Except for a few specific categories of items that go through authentication, eBay never sees what the seller ships or the what the buyer receives, so there is nothing for eBay to check unless someone complains about what was received by invoking eBay's money back guarantee.

Sellers are responsible for the descriptions they provide, and buyers should not assume that eBay screens the listings in advance.

As long as counterfeits exist and there are folks trying to sell them, and scammers exist, buyers will still have to be on the lookout for them, and avoid deals that are obviously too-good-to-be-true, whether they are being sold by accounts registered overseas or by domestic sellers wittingly or unwittingly buying counterfeits from overseas to sell here.

Buyers that doubt their ability to distinguish a genuine article from a counterfeit one should only consider purchasing from trustworthy sellers that have an established reputation for delivering exactly what was described, and should avoid deals that are too-good-to-be-true, or deals that are offered by inexperienced sellers that might disappear soon after the transaction is made, or else be prepared to get items authenticated by trusted sources within thirty days to be able to take advantage of eBay's money back guarantee.